“In a mass grave they recently discovered almost 500 people with their hands tied and a bullet in their heads. This means that they were murdered in a cruel way, just as in Stalin’s time they murdered innocent people by throwing them into a mass graves.” . This was reported by the Major Archbishop of Kyiv, Mgr. Sviatoslav Shevchuk, who in video connection with the XXIII National Congress for Health Pastoral Care of the CEI, held in Cagliari from May 9 to 12, the Secretariat of the Major Archbishop, based in Rome, announced.
Archbishop of Kyiv: “500 people with a blow to the head in a mass grave”
Shevchuk said what Ukraine is experiencing is a “dramatic moment” with a war that has taken off the mask and shown everyone who they really are. From the memory of February 24 when Kyiv came under Russian fire, to the decision to save lives being “a primary duty” as “the church and Christian community,” to the difficulties of doing so under those conditions . But “thank God we survived,” said the primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. And he added: “I didn’t think I would survive because in three days the capital was almost surrounded. The Ukrainian army was able to stop the Russian tanks 50 kilometers from our cathedral.” Archbishop Shevchuk defined the 78 days of the war as “78 days of tears, rivers of blood that spilled on Ukrainian soil.” He chronicled his pastoral visits to his diocese, which is now “desert-like,” with badly damaged cities like Chernihiv, where neighborhoods were leveled, and the increasing discovery of mass graves. In the question-and-answer session, the Major Archbishop emphasized that faith is needed in this war situation, because “in order to stay and control your own fear, you have to rely completely on God”. And he reminded that there are 12 million refugees and 5 million are already outside Ukraine, but there are also thousands of people who need treatment after their war injuries, they have to undergo lengthy treatment and rehabilitation. ” Bishops, Shevchuk then said that “now in Ukraine there is no such opportunity to help everyone. So if there is a program to make prostheses for children injured in the war, let us know, because in this way you will make these poor innocent people really happy”. In conclusion, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church also appealed to the solidarity of the Italian Church in receiving refugees.
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